Psycho

The plot of Psycho is about  a Phoenix office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother.

 In “Psycho” the audience initially think the film is about $40,000 and the murder becomes a shock. This shock makes the audience nervous for the rest of the film anything could happen and or anyone could be killed. The audience know there is a murderer in the house. They don’t know when s/he will strike again but to be suspenseful they must know it could happen any minute. Hitchcock stressed that as the apprehension increases there is less and less violence on screen. 

This film uses alot of tension in it this is because of the music that is used in this film whenever there is a murder or a key scene this music is played, it is a very iconic piece of music done by Bernard Herrmann.

“A thriller is a villain driven plot, whereby he presents obstacles the hero must overcome.”

This is not the case in Psycho as early in the movie the hero gets murdered to prove that all heroes have their flaws.

Hitchcock said thrillers allow the audience, "to put their toe in the cold water of fear to see what it's like” Hitchcock has definitely succeeded in this film as he showed us that in this movie anyone can be killed and for all you know there could be a madman out there even though he looks and sounds normal.